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It must be so, Plato. Thou reason'st well. 

Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire. 

This longing after immortality; 

Or whence this secret dread and inward horror 

Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul 

Back on herself and startles at destruction? 

'Tis divinity that stirs within us; 

*Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter 

And intimate eternity to man. 

The soul secure in her existence smiles 
At the drawn dagger and defies its point. 
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself 
Grow, dim with age and nature sink in years, 
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth 
Unhurt amidst the wars of elements. 
The wreck of matter and the crush of worldi. 

—ADDISON CATO. 



ECCLESIASTES. 

1 :9 If The thing that hath been it is that which 
shall be ; and that which is done is that which shall 
be done ; and there is no new thing under the sun. 

1:10 Ills there anything whereof it may be said, 
see this is new? It hath been already of old time 
which was before us. 

1 :11 ]| There is no remembrance of former things: 
neither shall there be any remembrance of things 
that are to come with those that shall come after. 

1:13^ And I gave my heart to seek and search 
out by wisdom concerning all things that are done 
under heaven; this sore travail hath God given to 
the sons of man to be exercised therewith. 

PROVERBS. 

8 :22 )\ The Lord possessed me in the beginning 
of his way: before his works of old. 

8 :23 U I was set up from everlasting from the 
beginning or ever the earth was. 

8 :24 ][ When there were no depths I was brought 
forth; when there were no fountains abounding 
with water. 

8 :25 11 Before the mountains were settled ; before 
the hills I was brought forth. 

8:26^ While as yet he had not made the earth, 
nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of 
the world. 

8 :27 T[ When he prepared the heavens. I was 
there when he set a compass upon the face of the 
depths. 



8 :28 11 When he established the clouds above : 
when he strengthened the fountains of the deep. 

8 :29 |[ When he gave to the sea his decree, that 
the waters should not pass his commandment : when 
he appointed the foundation of the earth. 

8 :30 If Then I was by him, as one brought up with 
him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always 
before him. 

8:31 H Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; 
and my delights were with the sons of men. 

GOD. 

^The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are 
three persons with one mind. If each had a sep- 
arate mind, there would be three gods instead of 
one. In the beginning God created man in his 
own image as perfect as his only begotten son, our 
Lord and Savior. Man and woman being made in 
the image of God, reflected God; they were free 
from individual mind or will power. 

^ God who governs the heavens and the earth is 
able to govern man's mind as well as the body. 

If While God's children abided in him no evil 
could enter their mind, for God directed all their 
thoughts. There was but one way in which man 
could fall into sin; this was to reject God from his 
heart. This made him an individual apart from 
God and the arbiter of his own destiny. 

^ Light is truth. Hell is error. As darkness is 
nothing in itself but the absence of light, so is hell 
nothing in itself but the absence of truth. As truth 
appears, error vanishes. 



GENESIS. 

1:1^ In the beginning God created the heaven 
and the earth. 

1:2^ And the earth was without form and void : 
and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And 
the spirit of God moved upon the face of the 
waters. 

1 :3 Tj And God said : Let there be light, and there 
was light. 

1 :4 ^ And God saw the light, that it was good, 
and God divided the light from the darkness. 

1 :5 ^ And God called the light day and the dark- 
ness he called night. And the evening and the. 
morning were the first day. 

1 :6 ^ And God said : Let there be a firmament in 
the midst of the waters ; and let it divide the waters 
from the waters. 

1 :7 ^ And God made the firmament, and divided 
the waters which were under the firmament from 
the waters which were above the firmament, and it 
was so. 

1 :8 ^ And God called the firmament heaven, and 
the evening and the morning were the second day. 

1 :9 ^ And God said : Let the waters under the 
heaven be gathered together unto one place and 
let the dry land appear : and it was so. 

1 :10 U And God called the dry land earth : and the 
gathering of the waters called he seas. And God 
saw that it was good. 

1:1111 And God said: Let the earth bring forth 
grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree 



yielding fruit after his kind whose seed is in itself 
upon the earth: and it was so. 

1:12 II And the earth brought forth grass and 
herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yield- 
ing fruit whose seed was in itself after his kind: 
and God saw that it was good. 

1:13^ And the evening and the morning were 
the third day. 

l:14UAnd God said: Let there be lights in the 
firmament of the heaven to divide the day from 
the night: and let them be for signs, and for sea- 
sons and days and years. 

1:15^ And let them be for lights in the firmament 
of the heaven to give light upon the earth : and it 
was so. 

1:16^ And God made two great lights: the 
greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light 
to rule the night: he made the stars also. 

1 :17 TI And God set them in the firmament of the 
heaven to give light upon the earth. 

1:18^ And to rule over the day and over the 
night, and to divide the light from the darkness: 
and God saw that it was good. 

1:19 II And the evening and the morning were 
the fourth day. 

1 :20 ^ And God said : Let the waters bring forth 
abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and 
fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firm- 
ament of heaven. 

1 :21 H And God created great whales and every 
living creature that moveth which the waters 
brought forth abundantly after their kind, and 

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every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw 
that it was good. 

1 :22 |[ And God blessed them, saying : Be fruit- 
ful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and 
let fowl multiply in the earth. 

1 :23 ^ And the evening and the morning were 
the fifth day. 

1 :24 ^ And God said : Let the earth bring forth 
the living creature after his kind, cattle and creep- 
ing thing and beast of the earth after his kind : and 
it was so. 

1 :25 Tl And God made the beast of the earth 
after his kind, the cattle after their kind, and every- 
thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: 
and God saw that it was good. 

1 :26 ]\ And God said : Let us make man in our 
image, after our likeness : and let them have domin- 
ion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of 
the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth 
and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon 
the earth. 

1 :27 ^ So God created man in his own image: in 
the image of God created he him: male and female 
created he them. 

1 :28 ]\ And God blessed them and God said unto 
them: Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the 
earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the 
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over 
every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 

1 :29 ^ And God said : Behold, I have given you 
every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of 
all the earth, and every tree in the earth which is 



the fruit of a tree yielding seed: to you it shall 
be for meat. 

1 :30 11 And every beast of the earth, and to every 
fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth 
upon the earth wherein there is life. I have given 
every green herb for meat: and it was so. 

1 :31 Tl And God saw everything that he had made, 
and behold, it was very good. And the evening 
and the morning were the sixth day. 

2:1^ Thus the heavens and the earth were fin- 
ished, and all the host of them. 

2 :2 ^ And on the seventh day God ended his work 
which he had made: and he rested on the seventh 
day from all his work which he had made. 

2 :7 II And the Lord God formed man of the dust 
of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the 
breath of life: and man became a living soul. 

2 :8 ^ And the Lord God planted a garden east- 
ward in Eden: and there he put the man whom 
he had formed. 

2 :9 II And out of the ground made the Lord God 
to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, 
and good for food : the tree of life also in the midst 
of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good 
and evil. 

2:15^ And the Lord God took the man and put 
him into the garden of Eden to dress it and keep it. 

2:16j|And the Lord God commanded the man, 
saying: Of every tree of the garden thou mayest 
freely eat. 

2:17 11 But of the tree of the knowledge of good 

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and evil thou shalt not eat of it : for in the day that 
thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. 

2:18]|And the Lord God said: It is not good 
that the man should be alone, I will make him an 
help meet for him. 

2:19^ And out of the ground the Lord God 
formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of 
the air, and brought them unto Adam to see what 
he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called 
every living creature that was the name thereof. 

2 :20 ^ And Adam gave names to all cattle and 
to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the 
field: but for Adam there was not found an help 
meet for him. 

2:21 ^ And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to 
fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of 
his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof. 

2 :22 |[ And the rib which the Lord God had taken 
from man made he a woman and brought her unto 
the man. 

2 :23 ^ And Adam said : This is now bone of my 
bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called 
woman, because she was taken out of man. 

2 :24 Tl Therefore shall a man leave his father and 
his mother and shall cleave unto his wife: and 
they shall be one flesh. 

2 :25 ]\ And they were both naked, the man and 
his wife, and were not ashamed. 

3:l]|Now the serpent was more subtle than 
any beast of the field which the Lord God had 
made, and he said unto the woman: Ye, hath God 
said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 

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3 :2 Tl And the woman said unto the serpent : We 
may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden. 

3 :3 ^ But the fruit of the tree which is in the 
midst of the garden God hath said ye shall not 
eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 

3 :4 ^ And the serpent said unto the woman : Ye 
shall not surely die. 

3 :5 Tj For God doth know that on the day ye 
eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and 
ye shall be as gods knowing good and evil. 

3 :6 Tl And when the woman saw that the tree 
was good for food and that it was pleasant to the 
eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she 
took of the fruit thereof, and did eat and gave also 
unto her husband with her: and he did eat. 

3:7 ]\ And the eyes of them both were opened, 
and they knew that they were naked: and they 
sewed fig leaves together and made themselves 
aprons. 

3:8^ And they heard the voice of the Lord God 
walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and 
Adam and his wife hid themselves from the pres- 
ence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the 
garden. 

3 :9 Tj And the Lord God called unto Adam, and 
said unto him: Where art thou? 

3:1011 And he said: I heard thy voice in the gar- 
den and I was afraid, because I was naked: and I 
hid myself. 

3:ll|IAnd he said: Who told thee that thou 
wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof 
I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat? 

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3 :12 ^ And the man said : The woman whom thou 
gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree and 
I did eat. 

3:13 11 And the Lord God said unto the woman: 
What is this that thou hast done? And the woman 
said: The serpent beguiled me and I did eat. 

3:141[And the Lord God said unto the serpent: 
Because thou hast done this thou art cursed above 
all cattle and above every beast of the field: upon 
thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat 
all the days of thy life. 

3:15^ And I will put enmity between thee and 
the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: 
it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his 
heel. 

3:16|[Unto the woman he said: I will greatly 
multiply thy sorrow and thy conception : in sorrow 
thou shalt bring forth children : and thy desire shall 
be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. 

3:17T[And unto Adam he said: Because thou 
hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and 
hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, 
saying, thou shalt not eat of it, cursed is the ground 
for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the 
days of thy life. 

3 :18 ^ Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth 
to thee : and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. 

3:1911 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat 
bread, till thou return unto the ground: for out of 
it wast thou taken : for dust thou art and unto dust 
shalt thou return. 

3 :20 11 And Adam called his wife's name Eve, be- 
cause she was the mother of all living. 

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3:21 Tl Unto Adam also and to his wife the Lord 
God made coats of skins and clothed them. 

3:22TJAnd the Lord God said: Behold the man 
is become as one of us, to know good and evil : and 
now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of 
the tree of life and eat and live forever. 

3 :23 ][ Therefore the Lord God sent him forth 
from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from 
whence he was taken. 

3 :24 T[ So he drove out the man, and he placed 
at the east of the garden of Eden cherubims and 
a flaming sword, which turned every way to keep 
the way of the tree of life. 

T[ Adam and Eve were formed and not created. 

T[Adam and Eve, the garden of Eden and the 
serpent was an experience to portray to their 
descendants the manner in which all the world be- 
fore them had lived, sinned and perished. Though 
all matter teems with life, dust alone is dead; it 
is the crumbling of dead matter. God would not 
have formed Adam out of dust if Adam had not 
previously been reduced to dust from his previous 
existence. Of that previous existence very little 
is known; it is shrouded in darkness. 

^ The tree of life is the science or knowledge of 
God. The tree of knowledge of good and evil is 
the knowledge of truth and error. The serpent is 
man's carnal mind and the parent of all carnal or 
sensual appetites. It is also a liar and a murderer ; 
a liar because it pretends to be and is not; a mur- 
derer because it has murdered the spirit. 

^ The garden of Eden means delight. Adam, the 

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unregenerate, with no one to tempt him, failed to 
reach out his hand for the tree of life; in other 
words, he neither loved, served nor applied himself 
to the knowledge of God. Had Adam remained 
long in the garden with nothing to do but to enjoy 
himself he would have fallen into a state of inertia. 
Therefore, Eve's timely appearance saved him from 
a worse fate. Adam formed as a man was essentially 
man and woman until Eve was formed. God made 
this division for reasons which can only be under- 
stood by studying the process of evolution. 

^ Man will not move for good or evil unless he 
is spurred on by a woman. On the contrary, woman 
must move for good or evil without being spurred 
to do so. It is woman who inspires man to noble 
deeds, or drags him down to his ruin. It is she 
who is the constructive princ'^le of civilization. It 
is woman who has brought man to destruction; it 
is also her who will save him. The universal prin- 
ciple of polarity or affinity is the fundamental prin- 
ciple of evolution. The law of polarity, or the law 
of sex, governs everything known to man, from the 
chemical atom to the intelligent soul. The mutual 
love of man and woman transcends the physical 
functions and passions. It includes all that which 
goes to make up the higher man and woman. Man's 
spirit is of God and had its origin long before the 
law of polarity or the earth was in existence. 

^ Thp principle of polarity had its origin with 
the eai^th itself. The principle of polarity is the 
constructive principle of the physical man and not 
the soul. 

11 When the principle of evolution has constructed 
man to the image of God, it has served its purpose 

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and can do him no further good. Water cannot rise 
above its source. Man being born and brought up, 
has no more need of his mother. 

^ The bond between man and woman may con- 
tinue indefinitely, but its progress is arrested at phy- 
sical death. Should man after physical death con- 
tinue to be dominated by the law of affinity which 
is no longer constructive, it could only enslave him 
and ultimately destroy him. 

Matt. 22 :30 ^j For in the resurrection they neither 
marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the 
angels of God in heaven. 

Tf The sin of Adam and Eve was their failure to 
apply themselves to the science of God's laws. Had 
they loved God they would have tried to under- 
stand him. To understand God is to become wise; 
to become wise is to love the truth and hate error. 

Tf God can only be understood through his work. 
To understand God is the work of eternity. 

TJThe spirit sees no evil; it sees only error. It 
is man's carnal mind that takes offense of the truth, 
because it is enmity against truth. 

]{ Previous to Adam and Eve's disobedience God 
directed their thoughts; this made them spiritual 
minded. On yielding to the serpent they withdrew 
from God's spiritual guidance and became carnal 
minded. 

3:19^ Each of God's creatures has a name but 
none will be called by his name until he is regen- 
erated and returns to his former state. Therefore, 
Adam was well qualified to name the fowl, the 
beast and creeping things. 

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16:411 And when Hagar saw that she had con- 
ceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. Even 
so with man and woman. When they brought forth 
children their God was despised in their eyes. 

25 :21 ^ And Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife 
because she was barren, and the Lord was entreated 
of him and Rebekah, his wife, conceived. 

25 :22 ]\ And the children struggled together with- 
in her: and she said: If it be so, why am I thus? 
And she went to inquire of the Lord. 

25 :23 ^ And the Lord said unto her : Two nations 
are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall 
be separated from thy bowels: and the one people 
shall be stronger than the other people: and the 
elder shall serve the younger. 

25 :24 TI And when her days to be delivered were 
fulfilled, behold there were twins in her womb. 

25 :25 |[ And the first came out red all over like 
an hairy garment : and they called his name Esau. 

25 :26 ^ And after that came out his brother, and 
his hand took hold on Esau's heel: and his name 
was called Jacob: and Isaac was three score years 
old when she bare them. 

25 :27 U And the boys grew ; and Esau was a 
cunning hunter, a man of the field : and Jacob was 
a plain man, dwelling in tents. 

25 :28 ^ And Isaac loved Esau because he did eat 
of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob. 

25 :29 ]y And Jacob sod pottage : and Esau came 
from the field and he was faint. 

25:30^ And Esau said to Jacob: Feed me I pray 

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thee with that same red pottage, for I am faint: 
therefore was his name called Edom. 

25:311[And Jacob said: Sell me this day thy 
birthright. 

25 :32 ]\ And Esau said : Behold, I am at the point 
to die: and what profit shall this birthright do 
to me. 

25:33^ And Jacob said: Swear to me this day: 
and he swore unto him, and he sold his birthright 
unto Jacob. 

25:34 If Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage 
of lentils: and he did eat and drink, and rose up 
and went his way: thus Esau despised his birth- 
right. 

27 :1 II And it came to pass that when Isaac was 
old and his eyes were dim so that he could not 
see, he called Esau, his eldest son, and said unto 
him: My son! and, he said unto him, behold, here 
am I. 

27:2T[And he said: Behold, now I am old; I 
know not the day of my death. 

27 :3 T[Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weap- 
ons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the 
field and take me some venison. 

27:411 And make me savoury meat, such as I 
love: and bring it to me, that I may eat, that my 
soul may bless thee before I die. 

27 :5 H And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to 
Esau his son, and Esau went to the field to hunt 
for venison and to bring it. 

27:611 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, 



saying: Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau 
thy brother, saying: 

27 :7 II Bring me venison and make me savoury 
meat, that I may eat and bless thee before the Lord 
before my death. 

27 :8 ^ Now therefore, my son, obey my voice ac- 
cording to that which I command thee. 

27 :9 ]\ Go now to the flock and fetch me from 
thence two good kids of the goats : and I will make 
them savoury meat for thy father, such as he 
loveth. 

27 :10 U And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that 
he may eat and that he may bless thee before his 
death. 

27:lll[And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother: 
Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man and I am 
a smooth man. 

27:121[My father peradventure will feel me, and 
I shall seem to him as a deceiver: and shall bring 
a curse upon me, and not a blessing. 

27:13 11 And his mother said unto him: Upon me 
be thy curse, my son, only obey my voice and go 
fetch me them. 

27:1411 And he went and fetched and brought 
them to his mother: and his mother made savoury 
meat, such as his father loved. 

27:15 Tf And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her 
eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, 
and put them upon Jacob, her younger son. 

27:1611 And she put the skins of the kids of the 
goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his 
neck. 



27:1711 And she gave the savoury meat and the 
bread which she had prepared unto the hand of 
her son Jacob. 

27:18T|And he came unto his father and said: 
My father, and he said: Here am I, who art thou, 
my son? 

27:1911 And Jacob said unto his father: I am 
Esau, thy first born ; I have done according as thou 
badest me. Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my 
venison, that thy soul may bless me. 

27 :20 1[ And Isaac said unto his son : How is it 
that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And 
he said: Because the Lord thy God brought it 
to me. 

27:21 If And Isaac said unto Jacob: Come near, 
I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether 
thou be my very son Esau or not. 

27 :22 ][ And Jacob went near unto Isaac, his 
father : and he felt him, and said the voice is Jacob's 
voice but the hands are the hands of Esau. 

27 :23 ^ And he discerned him not, because his 
hands were hairy as his brother Esau's hand, so he 
blessed him. 

27 :24 T[ And he said : Art thou my very son Esau? 
And he said: I am. 

27 :25 T[ And he said : Bring it near to me, and I 
will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless 
thee: and he brought it near to him, and he did 
eat: and he brought him wine and he drank. 

27 :26 U And his father Isaac said unto him : Come 
near now and kiss me, my son. 

27 :27 ^ And he came near and kissed him, and he 

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smelled the smell of his raiment and blessed him 
and said: See, the smell of my son is as the smell 
of a field which the Lord hath blessed. 

• 27 :28 tf Therefore, God give thee of the dew of 
heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of 
corn and wine. 

27 :29 ^ Let people serve thee and nations bow 
down to thee : be lord over thy brethren and let thy 
mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every 
one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blcss- 
eth thee. 

27 :30 ^ And it came to pass as soon as Isaac had 
made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet 
scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his 
father, that Esau his brother came in from his 
hunting. 

27:31 ^ And he also had made savoury meat and 
brought it unto his father, and said unto his father : 
Let my father arise and eat of his son's venison, 
that thy soul may bless me. 

27 :32 ^ And Isaac his father said unto him : Who 
art thou? And he said : I am thy son, thy first bom, 
Esau. 

27 :33 U And Isaac trembled very exceedingly and 
said: V/ho? Where is he that hath taken venison 
and brought it to me: and I have eaten of all be- 
fore thou camest, and have blessed him? Yea, and 
he shall be blessed. 

27 :34 If And when Esau heard the words of his 
father he cried with a great and exceedingly bitter 
cry, and said unto his father: Bless me, even me 
also, O my father. 

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27 :35 ^ And he said : Thy brother came with sub- 
tilty and hath taken away thy blessing. 

27 :36 ]\ And he said : Is not he rightly named 
Jacob? For he hath supplanted me these two times: 
he took away my birthright, and behold, now he 
hath taken away my blessing: And he said: Hast 
thou not reserved a blessing for me? 

27 :37 ^ And Isaac answered and said unto Esau : 
Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his 
brethren have I given to him for servants : and with 
corn and wine have I sustained him, and what shall 
I do now unto thee, my son? 

27 :38 ^ And Esau said unto his father: Hast thou 
but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me 
also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice 
and wept. 

27 :39 ^ And Isaac his father answered and said 
unto him : Behold thy dwelling shall be the fatness 
of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above. 

27 :40 ^ And by thy sword shalt thou live, and 
shalt serve thy brother: and it shall come to pass 
when thou shalt have the dominion that thou shalt 
break his yoke from off thy neck. 

27 :41 ^ And Esau hated Jacob because of the 
blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and 
Esau said in his heart: The days of mourning for 
my father are at hand, then will I slay my brother 
Jacob. 

27 :42 ^ And these words of Esau, her elder son, 
were told to Rebekah, and sent and called Jacob, 
her younger son, and said unto him: Behold, thy 
brother Esau, as touching thee doth comfort him- 
self purposing to kill thee. 

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27 :43 ^ Now therefore, my son, obey my voice : 
and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother at Haran : 

27 :44 ]\ And tarry with him a few days until thy 
brother's fury turn away. 

27 :45 j[ Until thy brother's anger turn away from 
thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to 
him, then I will send and fetch thee from thence: 
why should I be deprived also of you both in one 
day? 

27 :46 ^ And Rebekah said to Isaac : I am weary 
of my life, because of the daughters of Heth. If 
Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth such 
as these which are of the daughters of the land, 
what good shall my life do me? 

^ God in his wisdom foresaw that the children of 
Israel would rebel against his commandments and 
reject Christ. Therefore, he provided Isaac with 
two heirs instead of one. 

][ Esau, who is Edom, stands for Israel. 

^ Jacob stands for the Gentiles. 

^ As Esau despised and rejected his birthright, 
so did the children of Israel despise and reject 
Christ. 

11 The dominion which is Christianity was given 
to the Gentiles because the children of Israel re- 
jected Christ. 

Deu. 12:26 II Behold, I set before you this day a 
blessing and a curse. 

12:27 ^ A blessing, if ye obey the commandments 
of the Lord your God, which I command you this 
day. 



12 :28 |[ A curse, if ye will not obey the command- 
ments of the Lord your God. 

^ The children of Israel, like Esau, lost their 
blessing and were made to serve the Gentiles. 

][ Had the children of Israel not rebelled against 
God's commandments, Isaac would have had but 
one son, who would have been heir to all the world. 

Gen. 27 :38 ^ Hast thou but jone blessing, my 
father? Bless me, even me also, O my father! And 
Esau lifted up his voice and wept. 

^ Even so will the children of Israel lift up their 
voice to God and beg for a blessing. 

Matt. 23 :37 Tj O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that 
killest the prophets and stonest them which are sent 
unto thee. How often would I have gathered thy 
children together, even as a hen gathereth her chick- 
ens under her wings, and ye would not! 

23 :32 ^ Behold, your house is left unto you deso- 
late. 

23 :39 ^ For I say unto- you : Ye shall not see me 
henceforth, till ye shall say: Blessed is he that 
Cometh in the name of the Lord. 

Gen. 27 :40 ^ And it shall come to pass when thou 
shalt have the dominion that thou shalt break his 
yoke from off thy neck. 

Tj In the end all, regardless of nationality, will 
be of the twelve tribes of Israel. 

Gall. 3 :28 ^ There is neither Jew nor Greek ; there 
is neither bond nor free; there is neither male nor 
female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. 

Isaiah 66 :7 Tj Before she travailed she brought 



forth: before her pain came she was delivered of a 
man child. 

66:8 11 Who hath heard such a thing? Who hath 
seen such a thing? Shall the earth be made to 
bring forth in one day? Or shall a nation be born 
at once? For as soon as Zion travailed she brought 
forth her children. 

66 :9 |[ Shall I bring to the birth and not cause 
to bring forth? saith the Lord. Shall I cause to 
bring forth and shut the womb? said thy God. 

^As soon as the children of Israel repent Zion 
shall bring forth her children. 

TIZion stands for the church. Rev. 12:1. The 
woman clothed with the sun also stands for the 
church. As woman is the glory of man the church 
likewise is the glory of God. 

EZEKIEL. 

28:12^ Son of man, take up a lamentation upon 
the King of Tyrus, and say unto him. Thus saith 
the Lord God : Thou sealest up the sum, full of wis- 
dom and perfect in beauty. 

28:13 II Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of 
God. Every precious stone was thy covering; the 
sardius, topaz and the diamond, the beryl, the 
onyx and the- jasper, the sapphire, the emerald 
and the carbuncle and gold, the workmanship of 
thy tabrets, and of thy pipes was prepared in thee 
in the day that thou wast created. 

28:1411 Thou art the anointed cherub that cov- 
ereth: and I have set thee so; thou wast upon the 
holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and 
down in the midst of the stones of fire. 



28:15^ Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the 
day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found 
in thee. 

28:16 ^ By the multitude of thy merchandise they 
have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou 
hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane 
out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy 
thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the 
stones of fire. 

28:17^ Thine heart was lifted up because of thy 
beauty; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason 
of thy brightness. I will cast thee to the ground, 
I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold 
thee. 

28:18^ Thou has defiled thy sanctuaries by the 
multitude of thine iniquities. By the iniquity of 
thy traffic therefore will I bring forth a fire from 
the midst of thee ! it shall devour thee and I will 
bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight 
of all them that behold thee. 

28:19 If All they that know thee among the peo- 
ple shall be astonished at thee; thou shalt be a ter- 
ror and never shalt thou be any more. 

Matt. 10:19-20 1[ Take no thought how or what ye 
shall speak, for it shall be given you in that same 
hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that 
speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh 
in you. 

JOHN. 

5:30^1 can of mine own self do nothing ; as I 
hear I judge and my judgment is just, because I 



seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father 
which hath sent me. 

14:7 IJIf ye had known me, ye should have known 
my Father also: and henceforth ye know him and 
have seen him. Christ Jesus was moved and guided 
in all he said or did by the Spirit of God; he did 
nothing of his own free will. 

7:15^ And the Jews marvelled, saying: How 
knoweth this man letters, having never learned? 

7:16^ Jesus answered them and said: My doc- 
trine is not mine, but his that sent me. 

3 :6 ^ That which is born of the flesh is flesh and 
that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. 

3 :7 ^ Marvel not that I said ye must be born 
again. As a child must come out of its mother's 
womb before it is born, even so must one forsake 
the world before being born of the Spirit. 

3 :8 If The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou 
hearest the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence 
it Cometh, and whither it goeth ; so is everyone that 
is born of the Spirit. Jesus speaking to the wo- 
man of Samaria, saying: 

4 :22 ^ Ye worship ye know not what. 

4 :23 ^ But the hour cometh and now is when 
the true worshippers shall worship the Father in 
Spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to 
worship him. 

5 :24 Tl God is a Spirit and they that worship him 
must worship him in Spirit and in truth. 

6 :63 ^ It is the Spirit that quickeneth : the flesh 
profiteth nothing : the words that I speak unto you : 
they are Spirit and they are Life. 

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10:34^ Is it not written in your law, I said Yc 
are gods? 

10:35T[If he called them gods, unto whom the 
word of God came and the scripture cannot bt 
broken. 

Psalms 82 :6 U I have said ye are gods ; and all of 
you are children of the most high. 

82 :7 U But ye shall die like men and fall like one 
of the princes. 

17:2411 Father, I will that they also, whom thou 
hast given me, be with me where I am: that they 
may behold my glory which thou hast given me: 
for thou lovedest me before the foundation of the 
world. 

17 :25 Tf O righteous Father, the world hath not 
known thee : but I have known thee and these have 
known that thou hast sent me. 

MATTHEW. 

|[ Christ tempted of the devil. The devil or satan 
is man's carnal mind. 

4:1 II Then was Jesus* led up of the Spirit into 
the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 

4 :2 II And when he had fasted forty days and 
forty nights, he was afterward an hungered. 

4 :3 Tl And when the tempter came to him, he 
said: If thou be the son of God, command that 
these stones be made bread. 

4 :4 11 But he answered and said : It is written, 
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every 
word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 



4 :5 T[ Then the devil taketh him up into the holy 
city and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple. 

4 :6 ][ And said unto him : If thou be the son of 
God cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall 
give his angels charge concerning thee and in their 
hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou 
dash thy foot against a stone. 

4 :7 H Jesus said unto him, It is written again 
thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. 

4 :8 |[ Again the devil taketh him up into an ex- 
ceeding high mountain and showed him all the 
kingdoms of the world and the glory of them. 

4 :9 ^ And saith unto him : All these things will 
I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 

4:10 ^ Then saith Jesus unto him: Get thee hence 
Satan : for it is written thou shalt worship the Lord 
thy God and him only shalt thou serve. 

4:11 T[ Then the devil leaveth him and behold, 
angels came and ministered unto him. 

^ Jesus's long fast of forty days and forty nights 
was necessary or God would not have exacted it; 
it was a preliminary preparation to enable him to 
stand the many indignities to which he had to sub- 
mit. 

TJA long fast not only weakens the body, but 
also subdues the will or passions, and thereby gives 
the Spirit the ascendancy over the body and carnal 
mind. 

tr Jesus could have commanded the stones to be 
made bread, but had he done so without God's com- 
mand, he would have obeyed his own will and the 
demands of the flesh; in so doing, he would have 
served himself or the devil and disobeyed God. 



^ The wisdom and meekness of Christ Jesus 
stand without a parallel throughout the history of 
the world. 

^A man very highly developed under spiritual 
law is freed from the coarse temptations of the 
flesh. Such a man, however, is not above tempta- 
tion. In fact, to such as these, come the most sub- 
tle and powerful temptations that can assail the 
ambitious soul of man, to one equipped with great 
knowledge of nature's finer forces; and the power 
to operate and control them comes the strongest 
temptations known to man. It is no longer the 
clamor of the gross appetites and passions. It is 
an imperious demand for power. A demand that 
rises in the soul itself. 

^ The desire for a personal temporal supremacy 
and aggrandizement is the most powerful tempta- 
tions that can move an intelligent being who is 
equipped with unusual powers. The desire to exer- 
cise sovereignty over the temporal affairs, as well 
as over the minds of men, has been the stumbling 
block of most great men. Thirst for power causes 
greater suffering in the world than do the mere 
fleshy appetites and passions of men. 

U This is the temptation over which Christ tri- 
umphed. It is this which has been and is the fun- 
damental error of Catholicism. 

26 :38 T[ My soul is exceeding sorrowful even 
unto death; tarry ye here and watch with me. 

26:39^ And he went a little farther and fell on 
his face and prayed, saying: O my Father, if it 
be possible, let this cup pass from me : nevertheless, 
not as I will, but as thou wilt. 

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9 :2 ^ A man sick of the palsy was brought to 
Jesus, who said : Son, be of good cheer : thy sins be 
forgiven thee. 

9 :3 ^ And behold certain of the scribes said with- 
in themselves: This man blasphemeth. 

9:4^ And Jesus knowing their thoughts, said: 
Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? 

9 :5 1[ For whether is easier to say : Thy sins be 
forgiven thee, or to say: Arise and walk? 

t[ Sickness is the penalty of sin, therefore when 
Christ forgave the sick man's sins, the sick man 
being no longer bonded by sin, was made whole, 

10 :34|[ Think not that I am come to send peace 
on earth : I came not to send peace, but a sword. 

10:37 H He that loved father or mother more than 
me is not worthy of me, and he that loved son or 
daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 

CHRIST'S TESTIMONY OF JOHN. 

11 :8 ^ But what went ye out for to see? A man 
clothed in soft raiments? Behold they that wear 
soft clothing are in King's houses. 

11:9 11 But what went ye out for to see? A 
prophet? Yea I say unto you and more than a 
prophet. 

11 :10 If For this is he of whom it is written. Be- 
hold I send my messenger before thy face which 
shall prepare thy way before thee. 

11:11 1[ Verily I say unto you, among them that 
are born of woman there hath not risen a greater 
than John the Baptist. : notwithstanding he that is 
least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. 

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11:12^ And from the days of John the Baptist 
until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth vio- 
lence and the violent take it by force. 

11:13^ For all the prophets and the law proph- 
esied until John. 

ll:14T[And if ye will receive it, this is Elias 
which was for to come. 

ll:15TfHe that hath ears to hear, let him hear. 

17:2 If While Jesus was with his disciples he was 
transfigured before them: and his face did shine as 
the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. 

17:311 And behold there appeared unto them 
Moses and Elias, talking with him. 

17:1011 Why then say the scribes that Elias 
must first come? 

17:11 II And Jesus answered and said unto them: 
Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. 

17:12 II But I say until you that Elias is come 
already, and they know him not, but have done 
unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall 
also the Son of man suffer of them. 

17:13^ Then the disciples understood that he 
spake unto them of John the Baptist. 

I Kings 17 :1 U Elias or Elijah the Tishbite was re- 
incarnated in the person of John the Baptist. 

12:31 If All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be 
forgive unto men: but the blasphemy against 
the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. 

If The man who blasphemes against the Holy 
Ghost is at enmity with the very essence of which 
his spirit is ; the effect is the same as though he first 
defiled the food upon which his body must subsist. 

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12:48^ Who is my mother? and who are my 
brethren? Behold my mother and my brethren. 

12 :50 Tl For whosoever shall do the will of my 
Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother 
and sister and mother. 

^ The parable of the tares and the wheat. 

13:38^1 The field is the world: the good seed are 
the children of the kingdom: but the tares are the 
children of the wicked one: 

^ The tares are error which man has created. 

T[ To believe that the tares could apply to men 
who were created by God would be to imply that 
men were created by the devil. 

15:1311 Every plant which my heavenly Father 
hath not planted shall be rooted up. 

Tf The plants which the Father did not plant or 
create is error which man has created. 

18:111 Who is the greatest in the kingdom of 
heaven? 

18 :2 II And Jesus called a little child unto him, 
and set him in the midst of them. 

18 :3|[ Verily I say unto you, except ye be con- 
verted, and become as little children, ye shall not 
enter into the kingdom of heaven. 

18:4 II Whosoever therefore shall humble himself 
as this little child, the same is greatest in the king- 
dom of heaven. 

18:5TJAnd whoso shall receive one such little 
child in my name receiveth me. 

18:611 But whoso shall offend one of these little 
ones which believe in me, it were better for him 
that a millstone were hanged about his neck and 
that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. 

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^ The fondest mothers offend their little ones 
when they teach them to distrust nature. 

^To the pure, all is pure. A little child who is 
pure minded sees no evil; it trusts in everything 
and everybody; therefore it trusts in God whether 
it ever heard of God or not, it is free from conceit 
or prejudice; therefore it readily receives and ac- 
cepts the truth. 

18:7^ Woe unto the world because of offenses, 
for it must needs be that offenses come: but woe 
to that man by whom the offense cometh. 

19:20^ The rich young man. Why it is hard for 
the rich to be saved. The rich who love and enjoy 
earthly things are earth-bound. The sensualist is 
the bondslave of his sensual or carnal appetites: 
The parable of the wicked husbandmen. 

21 :42T[ Jesus saith unto them: Did ye never 
read in the Scripture the stone which the builders 
rejected, the same is become the head of the cor- 
ner? 

Tf The husbandmen and the builders are the chil- 
dren of Israel; the vineyard is Christianity. 

U The parable of the marriage of the king's son : 

TI The king stands for God. The bridgegroom is 
Christ, our Redeemer. The bride is the redeemed 
of Christ. Those bidden to the marriage are those 
to whom Christianity is preached. 

22:1111 And the king came in to see the guests. 
He saw there a man which had not on a wedding 
garment. 

T[ The wedding garment is the robe of righteous- 
ness. 

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Rev. 7:13 If What are these which are arrayed in 
white robes? and whence come they? 

7:14|[I said unto him: Sir, thou knowest; and 
he said to me: These are they which came out of 
great tribulation and have washed their robes in 
the blood of the Lamb. 

If Outer darkness applies to all things that are 
alive and to which it is not given to know the 
truth or God. 

^ Hell or darkness is the absence of truth or 
knowledge. 

23:15^ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees; 
hypocrites, for ye compass sea and land to make 
one proselyte, and when he is made ye make him 
tv/ofold more the child of hell than yourselves. 

REVELATIONS. 

12 : Y\ And there appeared a great wonder in 
heaven: a woman clothed with the sun and the 
moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown 
of tv/elve stars. 

fl" The crown of twelve stars stands for the tv/elve 
tribes of Israel. The woman with child, ready to 
be delivered, stands for God's children who are 
crying to be delivered of bondage. The dragon is 
not an entity, but a principle against Christ's doc- 
trine. 

12:6^ And the woman fled into the wilderness, 
v/here she hath a place prepared of God, that they 
should feed her there a thousand tv^o hundred and 
threescore days. 

][ There is not a verse in the whole Bible that 



supports the theory that the serpent or the devil 
is an individual being. 

T[The apostle Paul, who had a perfect insight 
of truth, never referred to the devil except as man's 
carnal mind. 

Rom. 8 :6 j[ For to be carnally-minded is death ; the 
carnal mind is enmity against God. 

^Christ declared the truth, but the churchmen 
distorted it into a lie. They trampled God's doc- 
trine underfoot and formulated another to suit their 
purpose. 

^ Christianity or God's doctrine went into the 
wilderness a short time after Christ was crucified. 

John 8 :32 ]\ And ye shall know the truth and the 
truth shall make you free. 

U Truth alone is able to free God's children from 
the thraldom of error or evil. 

17:8 If The beast that thou sawest was and is 
not : and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and 
go into perdition : and they that dwell on the earth 
shall v^^onder whose names were not written in the 
book of life from the foundation of the world when 
they behold the beast that was and is not and 
yet is. 

l[The beast that was and is not and yet is, is 
error which is the devil Satan or his angels. The 
book of life is creation; all that is not written in 
the book of life or creation is error which was 
created by men. It will be destroyed and go into 
perdition. 

21 :1 jf And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: 
for the first heaven and the first earth were passed 
away and there was no more sea. 

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21 :2 1j And I John saw the Holy City, new Jeru- 
salem, coming down from God out of heaven, pre- 
pared as a bride adorned for her husband. 

20 :5 11 But the rest of the dead lived not again 
until the thousand years were finished. 

T[ This is the first resurrection. 

20 :7 1[ And when the thousand years are expired 
Satan shall be loosed out of his prison. 

^The lake of fire burning with brimstone is the 
formation of a new earth in its incandescent and 
gaseous stages. The thousand years is the time 
required for the formation of the earth and the 
human race. 

T[ With the advent of man Satan shall be loosed 
out of his prison after a thousand years. 

20 :8 ]\ And Satan shall go out to deceive the 
nations in the new world, as he did on this earth, 
to gather them together to battle: the number of 
whom is as the sand of the sea. 

^ The judgment day is the summing up of all 
existence, from creation to the end of the world. 
On that day man will behold himself in all the 
various forms of existence through which he has 
lived from the time he was created until judgment 
day. 

PSALMS. 

69:21 If They gave me also gall for my meat: and 
in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 

69 :22 ^ Let their table become a snare before 
them: and that which should have been for their 
welfare let it become a trap. 

69 :23 ^ Let their eyes be darkened that they see 
not: and make their loins continually to shake. 

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ROMANS. 

14:14111 know and am persuaded by the Lord 
Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself: but 
to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean to 
him it is unclean. 

14:2011 For meat destroy not the work of God. 
All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for that 
man who eateth with offense. 

Matt. 15 :11 If Not that which goeth into the mouth 
defileth a man, but that which cometh out of the 
mouth : this defileth a man. 

15:191[For out of the heart proceed evil 
thoughts. 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

If Nothing can grow without a heart or a respira- 
tory organ. As the heart governs the body, so 
does the mind. 

If The eye sees and reports to the mind. The 
manner in which the mind receives it determines 
the result. Anger, fear and spirits of wine precipi- 
tates, but does not create. If a man having a skin 
disease indulges in wine he may expect a general 
breaking out over his body. The wine brought it 
on, no doubt, but it did not create it. 

IfAgain, if a man under the influence of wine 
encounters an enemy and shoots him, the wine 
prompted the deed, no doubt, but had there been 
no hatred or murderous desire on the man's mind 
there had been no shooting. 

If Again, if a man dreams that a wild animal has 
got hold of him and dies of fright, whether the 
man died of fright or heart disease, it is not the 
animal that killed him but his own emotions. 

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TfThe Chicago Tribune printed an article in 
August, 1907, descriptive of the experiment of a 
well-knov/n professor in his laboratory of psych- 
ology. The experiment shows the causative char- 
acter of thinking, in a long series of the most com- 
prehensive and convincing experiment. He found 
that change of mental state changed the chemical 
characters of the perspiration when treated with 
the same chemical reagent. The perspiration of 
an angry man showed one color, that of a man in 
grief another, and so on through the list of emo- 
tion. Each mental state persistently exhibited its 
own peculiar result every time the experiment was 
repeated. 

]\ When the breath of the professor's subject was 
passed through a tube cooled with ice so as to 
condense its volatile constituents a colorless liquid 
resulted. He made his subject angry and five min- 
utes later a sediment appeared in the tube which 
indicated the presence of a new substance produced 
by the changed physical actions caused by a 
change of the mental emotion. Anger gave a 
brownish substance, sorrow another. Each kind 
of thinking produced its own peculiar substance 
which the system was trying to expel. The pro- 
fessor undertook to discover the character of the 
substance which he obtained by condensation of 
the breath of his subject. 

^ The brownish precipitate from the breath of 
any person, administered either to man or to ani- 
mal caused stimulation or excitement of the nerves. 
Another substance produced by another kind of 
discordant thinking when injected into the veins 
of a guinea pig or a hen killed it outright. 

^ The deadliest poison is hate. 



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^ As the perspiration changes by change of emo- 
tion, so does the venom in the gland of the serpent 
change in the same way. 

If According to Mr. Louis Figuier, French natu- 
ralist, the energy of the venom varies according to 
species and circumstances in which the animal is. 
The same specie is more poisonous in the hot region 
than in the cold or temperate zones. The venom 
of the serpent of the hot climate is more abundant 
and poisonous in the gland of the animal. 

]\ L'energie du venim varie suivant les especcs 
de serpents. Est suivant les circonstances dans 
lesquelle ce trouve Tanimal. La meme espece est 
plus dangereuse dans les pays chands que dans les 
pays froids ou temperes. La morsure est d'autant 
plus grave que le poison est plus abondant dans 
la glande de Tanimal. 

11 Man has but one set of senses. His God-given 
senses are spiritual and indestructible. Though he 
is blind he continues to see in his imagination. 
Though he is deaf he continues to hear vibration. 
Though he is dumb he still finds ways of expres- 
sion. In his dream he is in full possession of his 
senses, though his body is dead asleep. Though 
his limbs are severed from his body he still feels 
them. As with the man, so with the beast. 

^ The physical body is but an instrument for the 
spirit to operate through. 

T[ When a person is in a state of unconsciousness 
the spirit has left the body for the time being. The 
spirit can only dwell in the body when it is habit- 
able. Electricity, the finest and most subtle element 
known to the physical universe, compares best with 
the spirit or senses. 

Tl When one com.es to consciousness from a faint 

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the spirit or senses enters through every particle 
of the body all at once, like a mighty current of 
electricity. 

^ It sometimes happens that the spirit in the 
depth of despair shrinks from the body and breaks 
through its fetters, leaving it in a state of uncon- 
sciousness. The spirit rushes blindly into space 
seeking rest and finding none. It sees for the first 
time something new and yet familiar; though real, 
yet intangible. 

If This transition is but momentary. The spirit 
returns to its prison more dejected than before. 
This is the spirit or senses that thinks, speaks, 
hears, smells, feels and moves. 

^ The inhabitant of the sea when taking its first 
breath of air and beholding the dry land for the 
first time mav experience a similar rapture as an 
earth-bound spirit who, for the first time, is made 
conscious of a world beyond its own. 

^ It is such a wonderful thing that a spirit in 
despair, having forsaken the v/orld, should seek 
and perceive a world beyond its own. 

^ There is nothing so good that it may not be 
defiled. There is nothing so defiled that it may 
not be converted into good. Can the sea be defiled 
by em.ptying into it a river of foul water? Foul 
water of all sorts runs into it continually, and yet 
its waters remain in the same perfect and un- 
changed condition. Yet, if water is left to stagnate, 
does it not become fetid and a bed for insects? 

H It is the same with the human body. Some 
people's bodies stagnate in parts. Those parts 
become food for diseases of the parasitic nature. 

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CONTAGIOUS DISEASE. 

^ Some people are immune to contagious dis- 
eases, while others are easily infected by them. 
When germs find their proper food and surround- 
ings they thrive and multiply. A healthy body is 
not food for germs. As heat causes germs to germi- 
nate in the ground and eggs to hatch out, even so 
does fever incubate germs in the body. 

CATARRH. 

]\ It is an established fact that the effect of con- 
stant and continuous inhalation by workers of the 
vitiated atmosphere of shops or factory will mani- 
fest itself upon the general health of the 
workers, but more immediately and directly in the 
organs of respiration and digestion. Lassitude, 
fatigue, headache, anemia, indigestion, lack of vital 
resistance and a predisposition to catarrhal effec- 
tion of the air passages are the inevitable results 
of chronic intoxication by vitiated air. Though 
vitiated air is responsible for the above named 
effection it is not the real cause of it. A person 
compelled to breathe air from which his sense of 
smell shrinks and revolts naturally breathes as little 
of it as he can help. Thus the air passages are pre- 
vented free circulation. As a result they become 
congested, and eventually refuse to perform their 
functions. Why the organs depending upon them 
suffer for the want of air. 

H A child is said to have inherited catarrh and 
disease of the eyes. The child did not inherit the 
disease, but it may have inherited improperly de- 
veloped air passages, which caused the disease. 

Tl A person suffering from affections of the eyes 

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should make sure whether the air passages are free 
to perform their functions. If not, it can be helped 
with proper attention. Both air passages should 
be in good working condition. If, on lying down, 
one of the air passages gets stopped and the other 
is left to do the work of the two, in such case the 
straight position on one's back is best. The pillow 
may be discarded or slipped down under the 
shoulders, leaving the head rest outside of the 
pillow. This straight position is quite comfortable 
and enables one to breathe easier. 

THE EYES. 

^The eyes are probably the most abused organs 
of the body. A person at work looks to guide his 
work and at the same time his mind is wandering 
in another direction, picturing another scene in his 
mind. This double way of using one's eyes has 
the effect of straining the eye muscles in two oppo-' 
site directions. The result of this habit is that 
the many muscles which control the eyes get 
abnormally short or long. 

^ When those muscles become abnormal the 
proper use of the eyes is no longer passive, but 
causes eye-strain. Once this condition is estab- 
lished the one so effected concludes he needs 
glasses. It is believed that if a person is put in 
utter darkness the same will go blind. A person 
compelled to remain in darkness with nothing to 
do cannot stop his mind from wandering. As he 
can see nothing around him he ceases to look out 
for objects. He soon falls into the habit of pictur- 
ing visions in his mind. Whatever he thinks he 
pictures in his mind. This visionary habit strains 
the eye contrary to its proper use. The effect of 

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it is the same as though one was trying to look 
inside of his head, instead of looking out. This 
visionary habit causes the optic nerve or pupil to 
shrink. 

T[A person addicted to opium, cocaine and nar- 
cotics has the visionary habit more or less. Stimu- 
lants of all kinds excite and produce visionary 
imaginations. When under the influence of stimu- 
lants the imagination gives pleasure. When sober 
it becomes a tormentor; it overpowers and refuses 
to be shaken off. One under the influence of a 
stimulant enjoys through the sense of sight espe- 
cially. Therefore one having delirium tremens 
sees snakes and the like, but he does not say that 
he hears sounds or feels anyone touching him. 

]\ Constant activity of the mind produces acute 
sensitiveness. Acute sensitiveness is the ground 
for offense. No sane person becomes addicted to 
intoxicants merely for the pleasure he finds in 
them, but rather for the purpose of diverting the 
horrors of constantly increasing nervous irritabil- 
ity, which ultimately become absolutely unbear- 
able and incompatible with sanity. All worries, 
whether pleasant or unpleasant, are destructive 
devils fastening themselves upon one's mind. 

11 To whatever a man yields himself to, its slave 
shall he be. 

]\ Physical exercise has many virtues, especially 
when the person who exercises is in a good frame 
of mind. The motion of physical exercise sends 
currents of energy and vitality through all parts 
of the body. To shrink has the opposite effect of 
physical exercise. 

^ A pain is intensified by concentrating one's mind 
upon. it. A pain goes away much quicker by not 

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thinking about it. A sore finger will heal much 
quicker by not thinking about it, and exercise the 
hand, as though there was nothing the matter with 
the finger. 

HEREDITARY TRAITS. 

|[ If the child of a righteous woman and an evil 
man inherits his father's and mother's traits in 
equal proportion, through his mother's righteous- 
ness, the child is able to recognize and overcome 
his father's vices. If both parents being dishonest 
and yet both working for each other's interest, so 
that neither one's vices militate against the other, 
the chances are that the child would be not only 
dishonest but unable to recognize his own vices. 

T[ The first step toward reform is to recognize 
one's faults. It is not the blood relation that is 
disastrous to the child, but rather the similarity 
of the parents that hampers the child's character. 

^ If a wronged wife stamps upon her unborn 
child the deep resentment and hatred she enter- 
tains for her husband's vices, such a child is given 
most powerful weapons to recognize and over- 
come whatever vices he may have inherited from 
his father. • 

1[A man and woman commit adultery, wash 
themselves and say, I am clean. Can water wash 
off the memory of it? A woman may have a child 
by a second husband, who will bear some resem- 
blance to her first husband. 

Tf Adultery is the sin of confusion. 

DEAFNESS. 
Tl In deafness, as in most things, it is the offense 

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that causes the injury to a person used to quiet, 
and given to worry; noise is far more offensive. 
The playing of a drum is delightful to a child's 
ears, while to a grown person who has a headache 
it is positive torture. 

^ To a person who does not take offense at what 
he sees, hears, smells or feels, the use of his senses 
costs him no energy. 

^ To a normal person the proper use of the senses 
is passive. 

^Beethoven, the great composer, .who lived 
solely for music, to him discord vv^as a profanity. 
Ke loved solitude and shrank from all things un- 
harmonious and discordant. The v^ray Beethoven 
describes his malady is the v/ay most people who 
have grown deaf gradually describes theirs. What 
Beethoven wrote when he made his will: 

J! ''It is remarkable that in conversation some 
people never notice it. They see only what they 
suppose to be my usual absent-mindedness. Often 
I w^ill scarcely hear a person who speaks low; 
perhaps I will hear the tones, but not the words, 
and yet as soon as any one shrieks it. is unendura- 
able." 

^ At times his hearing would be a little better, 
at other tim.es it would be very poor, and both his 
ears rang and roared constantly day and night. 

^The climate has nothing to do with the de- 
velopment of a race. In cold climates, where peo- 
ple have to v/ork in order to keep from cold and 
hunger, work is compulsory. It necessitates the 
developm.ent of intellectual and physical energies. 

^The hard working race produces big, strong, 
vigorous children. In hot climates or tropical zones, 

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where people do not have to work in order to keep 
alive, they fall into a state of inactivity from want 
of intellectual exercise. 

^ Man cannot remain suspended at a standstill. 
He must either rise or decline. The beast, how- 
ever, whether he is active or inactive, does not 
get morally worse, because he is free from temp- 
tation. Among the beasts evil does not exist. 

HYPNOSIS. 

^ There are' all shades and degrees of hypnosis, 
ranging from the lightest form of hypnotic influ- 
ence through all the deepening stages to the most 
profound state of complete functional suspension 
of the physical organism. 

^ Fear is one form of hypnosis. The child who 
obeys his parents only because he fears to disobey 
them is somewhat under the hypnotic influence 
of his parents. 

|[ The primitive savage wife who trembles at the 
approach of her husband is also under the hyp- 
notic influence of her husband. He is the positive 
and she is the negative, the more she fears him the 
more power he has over her. 

^ The man who steals another man's property 
is a thief. How much more of a thief is he who 
takes possession of another man's mind and causes 
him to do his will? A thought can easily be con- 
veyed through a passive or negative mind, even a 
sensation can be transmitted through the same 
passive or negative mind. 

T[ Hypnosis is probably the oldest and greatest 
evil in the world. Its principle is will-power. 

Tf The professional hypnotic healer who preaches 



MAR IS 1913 

to his subject by way of suggestion instead of ver- 
bal speech is like a thief who gains access through 
the window instead of the open door. 

^ A person who is too much of a coward to make 
a kick incenses another to do it for him. 

^ Can one create anything? Can a man imagine 
a color he has never seen? How much less can he 
create it, supposing he could conceive a color en- 
tirely new and independent of all colors. What 
would he make it with? To create is to make some- 
thing out of nothing. A man combines, but can 
neither create nor annihilate. He can change the 
truth into a lie and can also destroy, but he can- 
not do away with a single atom of nature's prop- 
erty. 

]l Is evil stronger than good? One might as well 
ask whether a lie is stronger than truth. A lie can 
only live in the absence of truth. As soon as a lie 
is uncovered it is annihilated. 

^A man lends belief to a false report because 
he does not know the facts. As soon as he knows 
the facts, no amount of eloquence can shake him 
from his conviction. 

^Though this book closes, the subject it contains 
is not exhausted, but merely begun. 

^Truth is infinite. It has neither beginning nor 
end. All of it leads up to God's throne. 



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